Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Many of the old-fashioned mansions had been torn down, to make room for smaller seashore moderns. It was getting too difficult to put up a flock of visiting amateur stars. Moreover, there was the tournament's "wear & tear on the courts." All in all, Seabright decided, it was more fun to play tennis than to watch it, even when it was good...
...pacifists," he shouted to the convention. "We are fighters, but using no carnal weapons . . . We merely sound the trumpet as the advance guards of the mighty heavenly hosts led by the Great Warrior, Jesus Christ. These legions of warring angels follow us with mighty weapons of warfare that will make the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and all other inventions of warfare by men look like the popgun of a child in comparison...
Will U.S. railroads make the grade again, if World War III comes? President William T. Faricy, of the Association of American Railroads, thinks they can. Testifying before Congress last spring, he said: "There need be little apprehension ... the railroads [can] meet traffic requirements arising from a national emergency." A fortnight ago, after another look at requirements, Faricy called a special meeting of the A.A.R., and got a pledge from the railroads that they would build 10,000 cars a month until the supply is boosted...
Johnson fears that the roads may have lost their chance to make up this deficit. With U.S. steel mills already booked solid, there seems small chance of getting the 150,000 tons a month which the A.A.R.'s construction program requires. From bitter experience as wartime boss of the Office of Defense Transportation, Johnson knows that if steel allocations are revived, freight-car construction will be low on the priority list. (In fact, car building was banned for most of World War II.) Said Johnson: "You build freight cars before a war, or you don't build them...
...Child Who Never Grew, by Pearl Buck. The simple and memorable story of Novelist Pearl Buck's effort to make a life for her mentally retarded child (TIME, July...